Heidi Songs Review & Discount Offer!
I am so excited to have found Heidi Songs to incorporate into my homeschool! It is a guilt free way to allow your kids to watch TV while you work with older children! 
Liz, the mom of 4 young boys, uses Heidi Songs with her 2nd grader down to her 17-month-old.
Heidi Songs offers DVDs and CDs that teach educational sing-alongs to preschoolers and young elementary aged students. I had the chance to preview the Sing and Spell DVD Collection. My children really enjoyed them! Even my 17-month-old clapped and danced along. Normally, I have to start short YouTube videos over and over and over again so my kids can watch sing-alongs that teach them certain skills. However, Heidi Songs is much better quality than the YouTube videos, and they last longer, so I don’t have to stop teaching the older kids to play something new. 
My favorite was the Singable Songs for Letters and Sounds. My 3.5 year old didn’t know any of his letters or sounds before we used Heidi Songs, and now he can recognize several letters and knows the sounds of those letters. He will sit perfectly still and listen intently through an entire Heidi Songs DVD. The songs move quickly enough so that he doesn’t lose interest.
The Sight Words 1 DVD was great for even my soon-to-be 2nd grader! Heidi goes over the spelling of 26 sight words and has a catchy tune for each of them. My son has been able to read them for a while, but the spelling reinforcement is excellent! My kindergarten son uses a dry erase board and marker while watching the DVDs and practices spelling the sight words. When he watches the math, shapes, and sounds DVD, he doodles things that Heidi is showing on the screen. It keeps him interested longer and helps to bring the lesson to his level. 
I also appreciate that you can ‘choose’ a lesson from the menu or ‘play all’. It saves so much time! As a former elementary school teacher, I like to know I can extend the lesson so my kids aren’t ‘just watching’ tv. Here are a few ideas to go along with Heidi Songs. Extension Activities:
- Make homemade books of shapes, numbers, and letters so your child can follow along with while watching the DVD.
- Create a ‘hop scotch’ board on the floor using painter’s tape so your child can jump on shapes, letters, or numbers while singing along with Heidi.
- Follow up the DVD time with play-dough activities. Using alphabet cookie cutters or even just sticks to trace shapes is a great way to practice what has just been learned!
- Have your child help you take pictures around your house of different letters, shapes, and numbers he’s seen on the videos.
- Go on a shape, letter, or number hunt a few times a week to see if he’s absorbing the material.
- Create a word wall in your home using the sight words from the Sing and Spell Sight Word DVD.
Heidi Songs also offer TONS of free printables to go along with these products. Find those goodies here. It’s TV time without the guilt for mom, and the kids love it! It’s so convenient to have quality curriculum you can have your kids watch while you’re teaching older kids or driving. Heidi Songs has many more products to choose from on their site as well as sample videos to preview the products. Check it out today!
Get your child ready for K to begin with free information from Heidi!
(NOTE: Some of this information relates to children who will be attending kindergarten at a public or private school, but most of it will be useful for homeschooling parents too.)
Heidi has some great information about getting your child ready to begin kindergarten this fall! Just click these links to access this information so you can have some fun with your child as you help her prepare for kindergarten. Here is the Week 1 information. Here is Week 2. And here is Week 3.
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Freebie!
You can click here to get Heidi Songs blog updates and to receive a freebie! (You can safely unsubscribe at any time.) The freebie is 10 pages of information about Finger Counting Addition. It gives you follow-up addition practice for teaching children to add on their fingers. It helps you teach your child to take what he knows at the concrete level and transfer it to the pictorial level–the next step in the process to abstract thinking. It gives step-by-step instruction to you, the parent, and it also includes some fun worksheets for your child.
